News / MSC vessel to omit US east coast calls for Halifax on inducement

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As the clock ticks down to the midnight expiration of the current ILA-USMX master contract, The Loadstar has received the first confirmation of a container vessel skipping its scheduled US east coast calls.

Destine Ozuygur, head of operations and forecasting at liner database eeSea told The Loadstar that the 3,400 teu MSC Sagitta, deployed on MSC’s intra-Americas Canada Gulf Service was the first confirmed ship to make “a ’true’ inducement call to Halifax and omitting her two US east coast ports ...